As America entered World War I, patriotic postcards sprang up by the thousands. This example incorporated many of the most common images: the U.S. Capitol in the misty background, watched over by a woman cloaked in the American flag. Her white dress was associated with personifications of liberty, and she stands atop a stone dais alongside a vaguely classical stone bench. Other postcards in the series used different symbols, such as a map of the nation, President Woodrow Wilson, or an eagle, but all shared the presence of a flag at the top and a sentimental poem at the bottom of the card.
